Combined wallpaper display card and color positioning tab



501- 1949- F. L. CLUTE ET'AL COMBINED WALLPAPER DISPLAY CARD AND COLOR POSITIONING TAB Filed Feb. 14. 1949 INVENTOR. Foster C/ufe BY Howard 6. Schroaer f- ,M Aff'y patented Sept. 27, I949 COMBINED WALLPAPER DISPLAY CARD AND COLOR POSITIONING TAB Foster L. Clute and Howard Claud Schroder, San Francisco, Calif., assignors to The W. P. Fuller Company, San Francisco, Calif.

Application February 14, 1949, Serial No. 76,306

1 Claim. (Cl. 35--50) This invention relates to a combined wall paper display card and color positioning tabsfor use in displaying samples of wall paper and appropriate color combinations for the ceiling, drapes,'and floor covering suitable with the sample of wall paper being exhibited.

A further object is to provide simple means whereby there are available at all times color samples which may be individually moved into are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Fig. 1 is a plan View of our display card, Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view, taken on the line 2--2 of Fig. l, and

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of Fig.1. It has been common heretofore to bind samples of wall paper into book form, to then hange the book on a suitable support, and to individually View each sample by folding it over the top of the support or rack. This manner of viewing wall I paper is very unsatisfactory, for the reason that it is impossible to compare two pages of the same book and, consequently, it means that the merchant has to bring out sample rolls from the stock shelves in order to make comparisons. This consumes a great deal of time and adds to the cost, both for the merchant and the purchaser. Furthermore, it is difficult to compare colors which will harmonize with the individual samples without referring to charts, tables, etc., and applicants have, therefore, devised a wall paper display card which eliminates all of these disadvantages and permits the user to display samples of wall paper, together with various harmonious 001- V or combinations which may be used for ceiling decoration, drapes, or floor coverings.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein, for the purpose of illustration, is shown a preferred embodiment of our invention, the numeral 5 designates a card having a windowlike opening 6, so as to form a frame behind which a sample of wall paper I, may be attached I and viewed through the openingfi.

At 8, 9 and I I we have shown three downwardly-extending tabs which are scored as shown at l2, so as to be folded upwardly against the frame, as shown in dotted lines at A'in Fig. 2. The under surface of each of these tabs is colored with a color which will be harmonious with the wall paper sample mounted upon the card.

Also formed upon the card are color samples l3, l4 and it which correspond to the colors carried by the tabs 8, 9 and I I.

At l'l, I8 and 19, We have shown tabs similar to the tabs 8, 9 and II, on the under surface of which are colors which would be appropriate for drapes useable with the wall paper sample in question, and at 2|, 22 and 23 we have shown tabs similar to those described which would also have colors corresponding with floor coverings suitable for the particular wall paper in question.

At, 26 and 21, and at 28, 29 and 3i, we have shown color samples corresponding to the color samples of tabs I! to I 9 and 2| to 23 respectively.

Indicia may be placed upon the card so as to] indicate which exposed samples correspond to the obscured colors on the tabs, as Well as in- I structions as to use.

The result-of this construction is that a sample I of wall paper I, is glued to the card 5, so as to be viewed through the opening 6, and color samples are attached to the card and to the tabs, which color samples will have been selected by eminent decorators, and the various cards, together with their samples, are now ready for viewing by prospective customers.

With this methodof exhibiting, several cards may be placed side by side, so as to determine their relative merit, and the tabs 8, 9 and H, for instance, may be individually folded upwardly, so

that one of the colors l3, M or I6, may be viewed directly adjacent the wall paper sample. Procedure for the other tabs, that is, in selecting drapes or floor covering, is the same.

It will thus be seen that we have devised a display card which has all the advantages above set forth.

It is to be understood that the form of our invention herewith shown and described is to be I 2 ,482,963 1 3 4 formed therethrough, whereby a sample of wall ible when said tab is extending into said opening paper may be attached to said card and viewed and is viewable when said tab is folded out of said through said opening, a plurality of color areas opening.

formed in said card, and a plurality of tabs se- FOSTER L. CLUTE.

cured to said card and extending into said open- 5 HOWARD CLAUD SCHRODER. ing, each of said tabs having a color correspond- I p y 7 7 ing to oneof the color areas and so positioned v a No references cited.-

that the color area on said tab is normally invis- 

